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I didn't make this, but I'm just going to keep posting it.

John "just calling balls and strikes" Roberts was part of the GW Bush Florida-recount team. So were Brett Kavanaugh and AC Barrett. Just mentioning this for no reason. And suggesting that he will is determining whether he will be known as John "Roger Taney" Roberts.

A lot of modern conservative politics is just people wishing they could go back to the imagined innocence of their childhood.

Meanwhile

Also, you know, slavery and colonial exploitation

Republicans say this every time they want to give their donors a giant tax break. It has never been true.

The point is a simple one. When the foundations of civic democratic America are being systematically gutted by the most reactionary administration at least in modern American history we shld be even less patient than usual with clout chasing lefty pablum making a perverse common cause with reaction.

She concludes by saying schools need to make sure they're teaching students "what it means to promote freedom and liberty" and apparently their way of doing that is banning students and silencing protected speech.

very cool that for ten years people at the heights of political commentary insisted to the point of rage that the paramount threat to free speech was “censorious” college students

Just blatant fascism -- engage in our nationalist project or we will punish you.

Enjoy having someone lie to your face? You're gonna love the Republican party!

Analysis | The Republicans' tax bill is projected to add another $3 trillion to the national debt, topping the $2 trillion from their last tax bill. But they also laid off a bunch of park rangers making $50,000 a year, which means they're still the party that cares about deficits.

i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

This is—it bears repeating—ethnic cleansing and a war crime. It feels utterly pointless to say, and roughly equivalent to screaming into the void, but the United States should not be supporting or providing any aid to a state that has ethnic cleansing as a policy position.

I say without any irony or sarcasm: yes, thank you, we want parliamentary sabotage. Again, I'm 100% serious. It's one of the few things a minority party can do, and which Republicans themselves did. It's essential.

Just the absolute dumbest fucking people

Launch all of these people into the sun

I could designate a few dozen American officials for human rights violations

The absolute disgrace taking place today in front of cameras in the White House is yet another reminder that for all the talk of Joe Biden's failures, the people who failed America the most are our citizens. Empowering this guy (again) was a foreseeable disaster we'll be lucky to survive.

Some days it feels like our country's humiliations are endless.

McGovern: "You are literally taking food off kids' plates to buy Elon Musk another yacht. I guess he's getting a good return on his campaign donations ... this is not policy. This is theft."

Laughing imagining what would happen if they gave @iwriteok.bsky.social and @whysophiewhy.bsky.social a $30m budget. The crazy idea of "people who care/know a lot about the things they make given time to build an audience" is profitable but doesn't sell well to a donor class that wants to be burped

look i have already received a couple concussions and probably some damage from being very close to rocket fire. if you simply hand me tens of millions of dollars i promise to obtain additional brain damage until i can properly compete with Joe Rogan in the marketplace of CTE

Hell yes

Oh #Iowa! Reporters! MORE OF THIS!

The Don't Tread On Me crowd's plea, in the end, is as narrow as possible: Do not tread on me, and only me. bad-faith-times.ghost.io/tread-baby-t...

WYDEN: Did you promise any tax promoter you would help them if you got confirmed? LONG: I can answer that with an affirmative no W: So you didn't meet w/ anybody when you were in town for the inauguration & promise help? L: Not that I can think of. And I had food poisoning W: We have it on tape

“a growing recognition that women’s pain should be treated” is wild to hear in 2025

Never gonna get the left wing economic push we need if it's funded by megadonors

Great minds think alike